WEEKLY WRITING CHALLENGE: I WISH I WERE ~ not I wish I was

Last week, WP’s Grammar Guru Daryl explained the subjunctive mood ~ it’s all about conditions, suppositions, wishes, demands, suggestions, and statements of necessity. When you say “I just wish I were…” or “If I were more like…”, knowingly or unknowingly, you invoke the subjunctive mood.

I wish I could be soaring with the eagles atop Medicine Wheel, a spot that continues to take my memory breath away. Instead, I’ll be trying to hold down my 4 pound Chihuahua so she isn’t swept away!! Gotta love reality. M.

I’m caught up in the adventure of the storm; it’s reminding me of storms of yore when my father packed the 7 of us in the Hudson and we drove to Marblehead to watch the waves crash on Deveraux Beach. We did this during the eye of the storm. But, I guess I don’t wish to be back there. At all. Whatever, as the kids say. Loved your poem, Toni.
Patty

I’m ignoring it all, at least trying to, as the wind blows harder, the rain increases and the lights occasionally dim.
Enjoy reliving the memory from the comfort (and dryness) of home, not the shore. I’d rather be noshing on corn chowder and shepard’s pie. 🙂
Toni